"Itâ€™s hard to feel hurt or frightened when youâ€™re flooded with pity."

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Lindy West

#Hurt Quotes #Pity Quotes #Frightened Quotes

“In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession ... That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.”

Source : "Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets". Book by Joel Shatzky, ‎Michael Taub, p. 302, 1999.
“Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.”
“I jest, of course; premature ***** isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off.”
“The text is your greatest enemy.”
“I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God Ive been able to succeed in my chosen career.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels about humor, collaboration, visual poetry, confessional poetry, gender, and the body, as well as tributes to Edward Field and Albert Goldbarth. I felt at home on all of them - most poets straddle more than one school.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?”
“The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.”

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